Since several people seem to be worrying about disk accesses -- I think that modern OS's (linux in particular) automatically cache files in RAM -- what appear to be disk ops are actually references to memory. In the bad old days you had to use mmap or something -- I forget how it used to work. This info itself may be out-of-date -- I am not an OS wizard!
My first thought when I hear about dropouts is not "disk ops", but "garbage collection", and then "X server traffic", and then "some background process". I believe the latter is one thing that Fernando's real-time kernel deals with. And Motif generates at least an order of magnitude less X traffic than Gtk. As I say, I don't actually know anything... _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
